The recent American Ballet Theatre fall season at the Koch was short and mostly sweet. There was one masterpiece—Frederick Ashton’s Symphonic Variations, a ballet almost sacred to the British, a hymn ...

A night of mannerly British ballet coming after the Balanchine speed derby that San Francisco recently experienced was like switching to decaf. Three works by Sir Frederick Ashton and the return of ...

A sense of rebirth spreads through the Washington Ballet’s final series of the season. There’s an unmistakable optimism in the works, with the lemony springtime of Frederick Ashton’s “Symphonic ...

Over the past decade, The Sarasota Ballet has built a reputation for bringing complex and diverse choreography to the stage. With a repertoire spanning classical to contemporary styles, and performing ...

Ashton's "Symphonic Variations," which was initially produced in 1946 for the Sadler's Wells Ballet (later the Royal Ballet), is a work of pure dance to César Franck's "Symphonic Variations for Piano ...

All the performing arts have taken a hammering, and heaven knows this isn’t a competition, but dance, and ballet especially, is a case apart. The technique that took decades to acquire needs constant ...

The Sarasota Ballet performs “Western Symphony,” “Theme and Variations” and “Las Hermanas” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota.

The Royal Opera House will continue its #OurHousetoYourHouse programme, featuring online broadcasts that can be accessed by audiences around the world for just £3. On Friday 2 April at 7pm GMT we ...

WASHINGTON — After everything from “The Nutcracker” to “Romeo & Juliet,” The Washington Ballet closes out its 2017-2018 season this week with a triple treat at the Kennedy Center. “Mixed Masters” will ...